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Type: Book
Date: 20 Apr 2023

How to Build a Boat

With tenderness and verve, Elaine Feeney tells the story of how one boy on a unique mission transforms the lives of his teachers, and brings together a community

The Interational Booker Prize 2025 judges

Type: Feature
Date: 08 Apr 2025

Why you should read the International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist, according to our judges

We asked the International Booker Prize 2025 judges to explain what impressed and delighted them most about each book on this year’s shortlist – and why they are relevant to today’s world

A wreath of holly made of books, mistletoe and candy canes on a red background with white stars

Type: Feature
Date: 01 Dec 2025

The best books to gift this Christmas: Booker authors and judges share their recommendations

This festive season, members of the Booker Prizes family reveal the books they are gifting this Christmas, and explain why they’ll leave a lasting mark well beyond the holidays

Shehan Karunatilaka's literary influences for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Type: Feature
Date: 21 Oct 2022

10 books that led Shehan Karunatilaka to The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

From classic sci-fi to interactive children’s books, we reflect on the novels that inspired Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Type: Feature
Date: 05 Dec 2023

Win a copy of Any Human Heart by William Boyd – and a Booker Prize tote bag

Win one of five bundles including a copy of our December Book of the Month, Any Human Heart by William Boyd, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag

Type: Feature
Date: 26 Aug 2026

Our readers’ favourite places to pick up a book

From snatched moments on busy commutes to those last few pages before bed, these are the spaces and places where our community makes time to read

Composite image featuring The Deserters by Mathias Énard, On Earth As It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia, White Nights by Ursula Honek, Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop, Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, The Vegetarian by Han Kang, She Who Remains by Rene Karabash

Type: Feature
Date: 13 May 2026

How independent publishers have become the cornerstone of the International Booker Prize

The majority of publishers submitting books for the International Booker Prize are indies. We spoke to some of them about passion, risk-taking and the growing appeal of translated fiction

Type: Feature
Date: 06 May 2025

Win a copy of The Overstory by Richard Powers

Win one of five copies of our Monthly Spotlight title for May, The Overstory by Richard Powers, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag

Monthly spotlight competition Time's Arrow.

Type: Feature
Date: 03 May 2024

Win a copy of Time's Arrow by Martin Amis and a Booker Prize tote bag

Win one of five bundles including a copy of our Monthly Spotlight title for May, Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag

The Riders book resting against a Booker Prize tote bag with the words Monthly Spotlight in a circle

Type: Feature
Date: 02 Oct 2025

Win a copy of The Riders by Tim Winton

Win one of five copies of our Monthly Spotlight title for October, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag